Edvard Beneš came back for the summers of 1946 and 1947, and then the communist takeover of February 1948 changed what the house was for. In August 1949 President Klement Gottwald handed the château over as a holiday home for working people, run by the trade-union movement, keeping only the classicist wing for state occasions; a government decree of 25 September 1957 transferred it into union ownership from that October. For four decades factory workers took their fortnight's holiday in an archduke's bedroom. Whatever you think of the regime that arranged it, this is the reason the building stayed heated, staffed and repaired instead of collapsing like the manor houses that were simply left to rot.Edvard Beneš sa vrátil na letá 1946 a 1947 a potom februárový prevrat v roku 1948 zmenil to, načo dom slúži. V auguste 1949 prezident Klement Gottwald kaštieľ odovzdal odborom ako rekreačné zariadenie pre pracujúcich — na štátne príležitosti si ponechali len klasicistické krídlo — a vládne uznesenie z 25. septembra 1957 ho od októbra previedlo priamo do majetku ROH. Štyri desaťročia si robotníci brali dva týždne dovolenky v arcivojvodovej spálni. Nech si o tom režime myslíte čokoľvek, práve preto sa v dome kúrilo, upratovalo a opravovalo — a nespadol tak ako kaštiele, ktoré jednoducho nechali schátrať.
